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Volcanoes on Venus Might Be Erupting Right Now

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Scientists have found signs of fresh flowing lava on Venus in decades-old data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft

The Sunspot Cluster behind the Recent Auroras Is Back!

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The massive sunspot region that gave Earthlings stunning auroral displays earlier in May is back from its trip around the far side of the sun

How Your Itch Can Make Others Scratch

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Just watching someone scratch themselves on social media switches on the brain network that initiates the physical sensation of itch

How Old Is the North Star? The Answer Could Change Our Maps of the Cosmos

Scientific American Content / 1h

The iconic star Polaris appears to be much younger than its true age. The secret: it’s eating another star

‘Pee-Cycling’ Could Help Tackle Cape Cod’s Polluted Waterways

Scientific American Content / 1h

A cost-effective pollution solution on Cape Cod could start in the bathroom.

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Even Faster Than Scientists Thought

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Warming waters are reaching several miles into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the “doomsday glacier” because of its potential impact on sea-level rise

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A Crocodile Equipped with Armadillo Armor Once Roamed Earth

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A prehistoric species that looked like a bizarre fusion between a crocodile and an armadillo populated parts of South America during the Late Cretaceous. Here's everything you need to know about Armadillosuchus arrudai.

A New Space Mission May Help Physicists Answer Hairy Questions About Black Holes

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Black holes are massive, mysterious astronomical objects.

15 of the Most Life-Changing Spacecraft and Missions That Fueled Our Curiosity

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Read more about the first satellites to building the first space stations that has expanded our knowledge of the universe.

Early Humans Didn't Follow A Diet, They Ate For Survival

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Following a "paleo diet" doesn't' exactly mean you eat what our ancient ancestors did.

Microdosing Psychedelics Could Revolutionize Mental Health Treatment

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Some studies show that small doses of psychedelic drugs can help manage anxiety and improve wellbeing, but their overall clinical efficacy remains unproven.

Animals Self-Medicate With Plants − Behavior People Have Observed And Emulated For Millennia

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The term zoopharmacognosy – “animal medicine knowledge” – was invented in 1987.

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Satellite data study shows 1.18 billion people are energy poor, finding no evidence of electricity usage from space

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An international team of political scientists, data scientists, economists and environmental scientists has found, via study of satellite data, that approximately 1.18 billion people across the globe are energy-poor—viewed from space, they show no evidence of using electricity. In their study, reported in Joule, the researchers mapped artificial light on the ground as viewed by satellites at night

NYC, bracing for another round of Canadian wildfire smoke this summer, works on response

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New York City is bracing for Canadian wildfire smoke to potentially roll in over the five boroughs again this summer, and Mayor Eric Adams pledged on May 30 his administration is going to engage in "greater outreach" with residents during future air quality emergencies to make sure they know what precautions to take.

Can satellites combat wildfires? Inside the booming 'space race' to fight the flames

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As the threat of wildfire worsens in California and across the world, a growing number of federal agencies, nonprofit organizations and tech companies are racing to deploy new technology that will help combat flames from a whole new vantage point: outer space.

New coral disease forecasting system could help ecological forecasting

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Research led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) has led to a new tool for forecasting coral disease that could help conservationists step in at the right times with key interventions. Ecological forecasts are critical tools for conserving and managing marine ecosystems, but few forecasting systems can account for the wide range of ecological complexiti

The world famous Roman Baths could help scientists counter the challenge of antibiotic resistance

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The world-famous Roman Baths are home to a diverse range of microorganisms which could be critical in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance, a new study suggests.

How water storage in weathered bedrock impacts evapotranspiration and stream runoff

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The water storage capacity of weathered bedrock is 4.7 times higher than that of soil, which should be taken into account in ecohydrological cycle observation and simulation studies.

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'Ugly' fossil places extinct saber-toothed cat on Texas coast

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This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of years before washing up on a beach. But when it was X-rayed a doctoral student saw there was more to the fossil that met the eye: a hidden canine tooth that had not yet erupted from the jaw bone. It wa

Modular, scalable hardware architecture for a quantum computer

MIT and MITRE develop quantum supercomputer

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Researchers demonstrated a scalable, modular hardware platform that integrates thousands of interconnected qubits onto a customized integrated circuit. This 'quantum-system-on-chip' (QSoC) architecture enables them to precisely tune and control a dense array of qubits.

Chicken feathers to deliver chemotherapy drugs and repair enzymes

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A new method of drug delivery using proline, an amino acid found in chicken feathers and skin tissue, could be used to limit the side effects of chemotherapy and repair important enzymes, new research suggests.

Researchers create materials with unique combo of stiffness, thermal insulation

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Researchers have demonstrated the ability to engineer materials that are both stiff and capable of insulating against heat. This combination of properties is extremely unusual and holds promise for a range of applications, such as the development of new thermal insulation coatings for electronic devices.

Bio-inspired cameras and AI help drivers detect pedestrians and obstacles faster

ScienceDaily / 19h

Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with a novel bio-inspired camera achieves 100 times faster detection of pedestrians and obstacles than current automotive cameras. This important step for computer vision and AI and can greatly improve the safety of automotive systems and self-driving cars.

First hints of memory problems associated with changes in the brain

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People who report early memory problems and whose partners also suspect they have memory problems have higher levels of tau tangles in the brain, a biomarker associated with Alzheimer's disease.